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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
GEOGRAPHY.
(Omit any two

1. What are the equinoxes, and when do they
occur?
2 Name articles imported into the q. s. which
are not produced here, and state where they are
produced? What do you understand by the express
sion THE balance of trade?
8. Locate the following, and state for what each
is noted: Yosemite Mecca, HAVANA, Delhi.
L. State the area and population Of and the num-
Der of townships in Belmont county.
8. Draw a map of South America, showing coun-
tries and capitals.
8. What effect upon climate has the destruction
of our forests?
z. Name States bordering on the Mediterranean
sea?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
school, LAW.

(Omit twO.)
1. To what extent is the teacher responsible for
the conduct OF pupils outside of school hours?
2 Who is the chief school officer in Ohio? How
chosen? What are his duties and salary?
8. Name the differnt examining boards known to
the laws of Ohio? How chosen and compensated?
l. May county boards renew certificates without
re-exanination? If so, when?
s. When was the present school system of Ohio
adopted? Make some suggestions for its improve
ment.
g. How often and by whom is the enumeration
taken? What is the penalty for neglecting to take
all?
7. Who is the legal advisor of the county ex-
aminers?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
THEORY AND PRACTICE.

(Omit any two.)
l. Point out some difficulties in alphabet
Make some suggestions on the same.
2 How would you commence to teach grammar
to pupils that had received no instruction in the
science?
s. What is the CRUDE method? What are object
lessons?
4. What is meaat by the New Education?
s. Make use of presume, suppose, shall, and will
in sentences, using each word twice.
6. To what extent and how do you correct pupils
in the improper use of such words as the above!
T. What difficulties do You meet in organizing
your school? Give daily program.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
Let Them Vote in the South First.

LO1 AuCM fOtc III IHc OOulH CIfSL.
The attempt to divert the colored men
of Ohio from voting the Republican
ticket is not meeting with much success.
While several Democratic papers are
talking about the independence" of
colored men, the fact that their Inter
ests" are promoted by voting with such
political parties as they choose, and as
serting that their obligations to the
Republican party" are of no binding
force, we notice that all this talk al
udes to the colored men of the North
ern States exclusively.
Of course, every colored man that can
be induced to vote with the Democratic
party in Ohio is just so much clear gain.
We count colored votes in Ohio, and at
the polls the vote of colored man is
just as influential as that of a white
man. But while the Democrats in Ohio
are endeayoring to persuade colJred
men to vote their ticket, in the Southern
States Democrats won't let them vote at
all, or if they do they won't let their
votes he counted.
Until the Democratic party permits
colored men to vote peaceably at the
South, and have their votes honestly
counted instead of DISTINGUISHING the
whole race by violence and fraud. color
ed men can be found weak enough to
to aid that party at the North, and 50
aid to sustain in power an organization
whose political existence depends upon
the destruction of the rights of all COLI
ored men at the South.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

All trains daily except Sunday
Trains leave Cleveland Tor Wheeling at II 10
p m IL 10 pm, arriving at 5 l3 and IS am.
E A. FORD,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket -Ag't, Pittsburgh Pa
MES MCCREA.
General Manager, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
ARITHMETIC. A
II. L. PEUk.
(Omit any two.)

(Omit any two.)
l. At what price must cloth, costing a a yard, be
marked that;7 per cent. may be deducted from the
marked price and still gain II per cent?
q Why does multiplying the donominator of a
fraction divide the fraction?
s. Find the capacity in bushels, and in gallons of
water, Of vat 20 #. long, it. wide, and it. Deep
breadth contains 1900 square feet. What is its
diagonal?
5. What number multiplied by 2-7 of itself gives
504 as product?
8. Why begin at the right hand to add? Why be-
gin at the left to divide?
7. The sum of three numbers which to each
other as s. g. and T. is 162-what are the numbers?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

THE latest complaint against rail
roads comes from the New York Pro>
duce Exchange. which charges them
with discriminating against American
cities and in favor IF Europe by giving
lower rates on grain, provisions and lard
board cities. The matter is to be laid
before the Inter-Statr Commerce Com
mission, and something may come OF It,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
GRAMMAR.
s. G. MURPHY.
(0mit anv two

(Omit any two.)
L What is infection? What parts of speech are
infected?
q How do you distinguish gender, case, number
of verb, and voice?
s. Analyze fully He made the stick straight"
''They desired the boy to be lawyer"
l. Make sentences, using relative adverb, a re-
hexive verb, and is, a copula and, predicate
modified by an adverb.
s. Diagram:
MY soul is an enchanted boat
Which, ike aJsleeping swan, doeth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing"
g. Point out the figures in the above and parse
italicized words.
T. Correct the following. and give reasons for the
change: The man which you saw is my father. A
lion is the king Of beasts. John done it. l seen
him. If he is not engaged, he will go.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

THE Birmingham Age, Democratic
journal, has this pleasant little editorial
paragraph:
Powell. the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Ohio, announces himself a
tariff-for orrevenue-only man. and invites
Republicans to discuss the issue with
him. 1t takes no prophet to see that
Powell will be showed under.
Alabama is for protection, and Re-
publican principles are gaining ground
in that former citadel of Democracy
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

THE invitation of Gov. Foraker to
President Cleveland to accept the hos
pitalities of Ohio on his way West, was
extended in behalf of the State by its
legal representative and was respectful
in form and courteous In language. In
not deigning to notice it while formally
replying to similar invitations from all
sorts of backwoods municipalities, the
President not only violates all precedent
and puts wanton affront on hospita>
BILE State, but betrays boorishness and
childish petulance that would better be-
come the King of the Cannibal Islands
than the Chief Magistrate of the United
States,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
DHTSBURGH, CINCINNATI 6 ST.
l. Louis RAILRoAD-Pan- HGnnk Route

Time table for east and west corrected to
June Il, 1887. Trains leave Panhandle sta
ton, Wheeling, feot OF Eleventh street, near
public Ianding-Central Standard time
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
CLEVELAND, LORAIN & WHEELING
~ RAILRoAD-TIMR SCHEDULE:

In effect Nov IA, 'Se.- New Standard, Goth
meridian time, which Is 2S minutes slower
than Columbus time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
DENNSYLVANIA COMPANY,
L (oPKRATING)
Cleveland & Pittsburgh r. 2
East and North to Pittsburpb and ClevelsDd.

Oondenced timetable of passenger trains
corrected tC May p 'S7. Central Standard Time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

Thos. G. Snyder. of Canton, was nomi.
mated for State Senator by the Republi.
cans of Stark and Carroll counties.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

The travel of sightseers TO Alaska is greater
than ever before known.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

A Chinese fishing junk at Vallejo, CAL,
has mile and quarter of line carrying
$500 hooks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
TEACHERS'kEXAMINATION.

The following are the questions propounded
at the Teachers Examination at
st. CIairsviIIe, Ohio, Sept. II, 1887.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
Winter Exposure Causes Coughs,

Winter Exposure Causes Coughs,
Colds, pleurisy, rheumatism. pneumonia, neu~
ralgia, sciatics, lumbago. barkacne and other
AILMENTS, for which Bensonis Capcine lasters
are admitted to be the best remedy known.
They relieve and cure in q few hours when no
other application is of the least benefit En>
dorsed by 5000 physicians and druggists Be-
ware OF limitations under similar sounding
names such as "Capsicum." "Capucin," " CAPS
slcine." Ask for Benson's and take no Others
Examine carefully when you buy. All drug
gists SEABURY & JOHNSON, Proprietors,
New York.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
U. 8. HISTORY

U. 8. HISTORY.
L. H. WATERS.
(Omit two.)
l. OF what is this day the one-hundredth anniver-
ssry! What led to it?
2 What was the plan of the spring campaign of
1864?
s. When and how was specie payment" resumed?
l. To what political party did John Quincy Adams
belong? How was he chosen President? Why by
that method?
s. Give brief account of Burgoyne's invasion
and surrender.
g. What were the charter oak and the treaty
elm?
T. For what were the following persons noted:
Marquette, Paul Jones, Raleigh, Roger Williams,
John Smith?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22
WRITING.

l. Explain the principles of the system you use.
2 Write the small letters showing the prope
spacing as to height and width.
s. Give five examples of forearm exercises.
l. Give directions for holding the pen.
s. Write:
"A chieftain to the Highlands bound.
Cries, 'Boatman, do not tarryP
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

ORTHOGRAPHRs
(Omit two.)
l. Give the rule for doubling the final consonant.
Give five examples.
q What are cognates? Literal meaning of the
word? Give complete list
g. What influence does the final vowel have upon
the one that precedes it? Five examples.
4 CLASSIFY words with reference to derivation, and
give an example of each class
s. Make table of elementary sounds.
g. Name the diacritical marks, and give an ex-
ample of the use Of each.
T. Indicate the correct pronunciation of te1lieTt,
ldth w., mirage neer oTGt, pLdcdrd, polite quo
tteTlt, recipe, term.
READING.
l. What is the circtrrnplsz. and what does it ex-
press?
2. Give directions for reading parenthesis.
s. Define absolute and relative emphasis and give
an example of each.
A. Give three examples of the influence of empha-
sis upon accent.
5, Define the terms pitch, compass, quantity, and
quality.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

AAF A MONTH and BOARD for thrss live
VEh young men or ladies in sach county
MIL address W zIEGLER COMPANY
WV Philadelphia Pa.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29

OF a bracelet are easily broken, and the
bracelet vanishes With regard to or.
naments, fastened to parts Of the savage
body, mutilation Is necessary, the ear
must be bored, the nose be pierced, the
cheeks or lips De slit, and, even after
these surgical operations are completed
the articles used for adornment are
generally inconvenient, and sometimes.
by their weight or construction, are
extremely painful. 81
shin striking contrast with decorations
worn on the clothing, in the hair, round
the neck and arms. or pendant from the
ears, lips, and nose, is the flnger-ring,
the model Of convenience. 1t is seldom
lost, for it need not be taken Of; REL.
quires no preparatory mutilation of the
body, Is not painful, IS always in view,
q perpetual reminder, either OF the
glyer. or or the purpose for. which It is
worn. 6" 1' CD" y
VI The popularity of the ring must,
therefore, be in large measure due to
its convenience end that this good quail
ity was early learned may be inferred
from the Hebrew tradition, which at
tributes the inventions of this ornament
to Tubal- Cain, the INSTRUCTOR Of every
.artihcer in brass and iron.''
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29
Death by tile Guillotine.

DIS. Regnard and Loye on the exatn.
nation Of the head and body Of a con-
vict Immediately after hls decapitatlon
by the guillotine. The prisoner was
calm TO the last and not pale, even when
his neck was fixed ready to receive the
fatal knife. Two seconds after the
decapitation the cheeks we're still rosy !,
the eyes wide open, with moderately
dllated pupils, the mouth firmly closed !,
When q finger was placed close to ono
eye no change Of expression took place,
but on touching an eye or the tips OF
the laslles during the first i've seconds,
The: lids closed just as in life. This
reflex could not be excited from the
sixth second after deoapitation. The
jaws We're tightly closed and could not
be opened by manual force. No, SINH.
lar muscular contraction could be de.
tected in. the trunk or extremities.
One minute after death the face began
to turn pale, tho trunk remained flaccid,
the ,caretids continuing to throw out
blood remaining inthe circulatory area.
~Ao viz EOho' lVltI luluuL0S UIl6 lace
was quite pale, the upper lids we're half
closed the jaws less firmly clenched
than before. The knife passed through
the lower part Of the fourth cervical
.vertebra. So 8 qia aEa
Those researches show that not q
trace OF consciousness remains two
seconds after beheading; that reflex
movement Of the cornea can be excited
for two seconds; that the heart may
beat for an hour, the auricles continu.
Ing to pulsate alone for half that period,
and that, putting aside the reflex move
ments OF the eyelid, the contraction Of
the jaws and the jets of. blood from
the carotids, it',.eemedin this case as
though II corpse had been decapitated,
so inert were the remains Of the convict.
Drs. Regnard and Iloye note how calm
and free even from physiological death
struggle symptoms is death by the
guillotme. There is not even asphyxia.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29
a Japanese Chemists Shop

. ta# #- = j H. B"
The quaint old man whose loyal ad .
,ShGrencs to the customs Of his ancestors
afforded me such an interesting illus
tration both Of old Japan and old Brit
ain was a seller Of curoyaKie--i. O., car
BOMBED animals; In other words, ami
NAL reduced to charcoal, and potted in
small covered Jars Of cart henWare, TO
sbe sold as medicine for the sick and
> suffering. Formerly all these. animals
wero kept alive III the back premises,
and customers selected the creature for
themselyes,and stood by to SEQ it killed
and burned on,the spot, so that there
could be no deception, and no doubt as
to the freshness Of their charred medi.
scine., Donbtless,so insensihle foreigh d
may account for the disap.
pearance Of the menagerie of waiting
victims and their cremation ground; !;
now ths geological backyard has van
ishell, and only the strange chemist IS
"shop remains, like well.stored museum,
Wherein are' ranged portions of the
I dried ohrcasses' Of dogs and deer, foxes
andbadgers, rats, mice. .atoads and frogs,
tigers and elephants.
:. The rarer the animal. and the farther
1t has Travelled, the more precious ap.
palently are its virtues. From the roof
hung ,festoons Of ,glganticS snake. skins,
(which certainly were foreignimporta,
tions from some land where pythohs
flourish. Japan being happily exempt
from the. presence Of, such beautiful
monsters. Isaw one very llne piece Of
a skin, which, though badly dried and
much .shrunken, measured twenty.six.
inches acrosJS but, II was only q frag-
ment ten feet In length, and was being
gradually consumed, inch by inch, to
lend mystic virtue to compoundss Of
many strange Ingredients. l was told
I tllatthe perfect skinmust have measured
very nearly fifty feet In length I saw
another ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS feet long
and twelve inches wide; this also had
evidently shr,lnk Considerably In dry
ing, andsmust, when in ,life,3liave been
very fine specimen.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29
SsThe Homesty or Women.

Women are being employed more and
more as book. keepers and cashiers, and
one avowed ground Of this employment
is that they are moro honest than men.
;Unuuestionably they are so up to this
time, and 1t Is probable that they will
have some permanent advantage in
that way. Their normal instincts are
somewhat higher and their temptations
less on the side OF perilous indulgences.
Built has been pointed out more than
once by the more cautious friends of
women that a good dealof the present
moral advantages OF that sex in matters
Of honesty comes simply from inexperl.
ence. They have hitherto had, so little
ttodo with the direct handling. Of money
that they fegartf it with more reverence
than men; the bare thought OF, an ir-
regularity alarms them, the conscience
is wholly fresh and sensitive; they cam
not conceive how q person can wrong
another ont OF a dime and live. More.
over, they ovesrate the dllficulties and
periIs consequent on WRONG doing. IA
young book.keeper told me once that
whenever her accounts failed to bal
ance, if it were only by single cent.
she felt as II a policeman were Just
coming in at the door. 1t is as we find
the case to be with lending money---any
prudent person would rather lend it to
a womans than toHa man because he
knows that the chance Of repayment is.
greater. In the present state Of society
a debt Of SIS seems o tremendous affair
to a awoman and a very small affair to
a man; but let that conan borrow and
repay a few times, and tue fine edge of
begins to- wear Off, precisely
asSitdoes with man, but more slowly,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29
Tho E,lnger.Rlng.

~ d. y Z SS yfjASsJ SN 80
iOfallthe ornaments withwhichvan
itS, superstition, and affection have
decorated the human. form, few have
more curious bits OF history than the
slingerring. From the earliest times
title ring has been asfavorite ornament,
and the reasons for this general prefer
once shown for itover other articles of
sjewe''ry are numerous and cogent. Or.
snarnents whose place Is on some portion
Of the apparel or in the hair, must be
laid aside with The clothing or head
dress, !, are thus easily lost and often not
4 at once missed. Pins, brooches. buck
les. claspsi4B buttons, all.sooner or later
liecome defective n}some' part, and are
liable to escape from an owner uncon-
.sciops Of. the defect fn the mechanisln.
!, The links ofa necklace IN time become
worn, ard theaiticle istaken off to be
! mended: the spring or other fastcnings
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29
THE POWER OF cHlsfEs.
sispers ~ .sSstt0.i and Leg eRds Aliout til,
Iig6saige Of t1ln,,tchR Relts.


! aAnollg the malodions bells Of De VS.
bslry nSY 0rksliir tie. lis one called g Black
lsS64I q. .sothilI,s 4 WiifchSswas; pFesented
idA6&ffati9n Of q murder. It's lugubrl.
o9sstlnd Gpoms out and breaks, upon
The midnight silence OF Christmas
teye, when Its solemn tolling issknown
.assthe t'deyll's knell q, signifyIng that
Wien Christ was born the degil died.
~ Lesendasy superstition has always
Invested bells with miraculous powers
and strange Influences, but why the so.
gcalled spirits Of darkness are credited
with strong aYerslon to their din has
never been satisfactorily explained.
In many Catholic countries the church
bells are set ringing during thunder
Storm q spperstitIous practice which
prevailed In England before the Rsfor.
nation, for Latimer alludes to it, say
Ing "that the devil might take flight,
and so the storm, subside" 6,
Wynkyn de Worde also believed in
It's efficacy, because, - he writes, ''e7il
spirits do doubtimoche' when they hear
: the bells rongeh." A remnant Of the
same faith fingers In tolling Of the
''Sanctus, = or passing bell, which,
PREVIOUS to the eighteenth century, was
sounded before, not after. the mortal
had Joined the great majority; and the
Italian will account for the deafening
. ,llproar OF bursting bombs on the piazza
IN front Of tile church, and the promis.
tenous clashlng Of bells from the cam.
ipanile, lduring the celebration Of the
festa Of 81 local saint, by saying that
such, noise "'pleases tle saints and
drives away the devil,1' 80 81 >
J. Slilors are especially credulous of
the gool orevil omens Of bells set ring
ing; and stories Of them having been
heard above the loariof tho ocean, and
the Whistling ofthewinl during storms,
like the lost bells Of Tintagel, or those
OF the submerged city between the
sScllly Isles and the lands End, are
too familiar TO bear repetition. Moore
founded his plaintive song, "Silent, @
Moyle," on an old Irish myth on the
power OF church bells. "T'he daughter
OF Lir was by some supernatural power
TRANSFORMED into a swan, and con-
.dem>led to- wander for many hundred
years oyor cer,ain hills and riYersIin
Ireland till the coming or Christianity,
saen the first sound OF the ohurciI
bells was to be the signal for her re-.
lease" a srfag 81 In
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29
Who Saved The Trains !?

Two trains came speeding along tho track
('Twas q bitter cold night IN winter time)
And the switchman nodded, over his lreN
With never n thought Of crime.
Twas q bitter night, ana the snow was
thick.
Tile fire was warm ana ho nodded long,
His senses Dennmbed by fatigue and cold.
But neyet intending wrong. 83
The traihs camernshing, la,ien with lives
Alasl for them, with no guard at the
swltchi
For the y sMitchman'so leyerais mighty I TO
~ Ssaye i t 8sis. % ~ SSa as 1F G9#
Or destroy. anu thIs night 'twould be-
is which"
His Newfoundland dog lay close to his feet,
With silken ears oil alert to hear,
And bright eyes steadfastly keeping watcl,
rs For possible danger near. J 81 qfll 5Is,
A distant rumbling smote his ear, .ylti,
And swift as fash to bis feet he sprang,
Eagerly pulling his masters coat,
And loudlyshis sharp bark rang.
The switchman rose to his feet In haste, z
And saw, through the heavily falling
snow, g,,s,E
The howling winds and bitter night.
Two fiery headlights glowi ~
He sprang to his duty. The trains swept by,
Laden with precious humanity
Peacefully sleeping, not knowing how nenr
THEY had been to eternityl